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Kachgaria is Oriental Turkestan which is gradually being metamorphosed into Russian Turkestan.
The writers in the _New Review_ have said: "Central Asia will only be a great country when the Muscovite administration have laid hands on Tibet, or when the Russians lord it at Kachgar."